Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Monetate gives control consumer experience back to the marketing of new testing and targeting tools

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Earlier this month Monetate, a platform that provides marketers with testing and orientation services for their websites, announced that it closed a $ 15 million series b round of financing led by OpenView Venture partners, which is added to $ 5.1 million series a round, the company raised in December, first round capital and gateway. With more than 20 million dollars on the shore of Monetate develops new platform that gives marketers more control over messages and actions on their Web sites, as well as testing, targeting and personalization tools.

As we reported a few weeks ago, the coolest part about Monetate platform is that it can be installed using one line of code. The latest version of the launch of its cloud-based platform allows marketers to integrate customized content and functionality of Commerce Server and the site visitor's browser.

"One of the unfulfilled promises from the early days of e-commerce was that marketers can deliver the right customer the right message at the right time," says CEO David Brussin Monetate. "With Monetate, we added a new level of flexibility in eCommerce, marketing experience, giving marketers the ability to make educated decisions campaign that will directly help to increase conversion.

Moreover, as marketers and marketing team so often on the move, Monetate 11 enables its customers to test, target and personalize their websites for the iPad, giving users this additional layer of functionality to mobile devices. Another bonus: all current users of Monetate will be automatically upgraded to a new version of its platform.

11 Monetate, like its predecessors, aims to cut the mediator IT by controlling the creation and measuring marketing campaigns and serving to customize your user experience for marketers. They just type "who, what, when, why" campaign dashboard Monetate and platform takes care of everything else, offering users the possibility to use the clone campaigns, labelling and filtering.

Marketers will also be able to do automatic A/B test vs. control group, track results in real time, so that marketers can quickly see the effect will have their new campaigns. Users will also have the added advantage of new targeting options, including geo-targeting for your messages and promotions to visitors to a particular place, on the basis of Weather targeting and behavioral targeting.

Monetate customers now will also have the opportunity to test and deploy their own HTML and JavaScript, the purpose of the recommendations are based on complex business rules and access to all the data they need traffic segments and buying patterns make informed decisions about promotions, messages or other materials, they deliver to consumers through its analytics and reporting.

Monetate-really no-brainer for marketers, eTailers and ecommerce. This is an excellent solution, and together with the infusion of new capital, the launch of the new version may very well have legs. In the end, the platform has already attracted brands like Petko Urban Outfitters, sports authority, QVC, casual male, Dick's sporting goods, the use of targeting and testing services for their e-commerce platform — and Brussin told us that the company added hundreds of millions of collective income for these enterprises, eliminating the need for enterprises to hire specialized groups and reduce bounce rates and shopping cart abandonment.


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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Ustream partners with Telestream to broadcasters of all stripes live video production tools

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Last month, Ustream has launched its streaming service on the iPad video. As Jason in that time, the application allows users to view live and recorded streaming content via the Internet and even upload their own images directly from their iPad 2s.

This step was a big step forward for live streaming video on a tablet device, especially that last function allows users to be couch videographers. Of course since last year, Ustream, there are a number of applications that give users additional value features that can make the sofa videographers in the Pro video creators for video editing.

Today Ustream announced partnership with Telestream, creator of digital media and solutions for workflows that will bring Telestream Wirecast live video production technology for all subscribers of Ustream and add another layer of Ustream and video editing solutions.

Last year, Ustream started the first product in its line of "manufacturer of Studio", whose purpose is to make the user's computer in live video production studio with editing tools that add professional video watch custom streams. Since its initial launch in 2010, the Ustream producer products attracted over 600 thousand downloads. Today Ustream and Telestream has jointly developed the version 2.0 of its family of desktop applications, streaming media, which adds a bunch of updates for all producers and sees Kit, expanding to a total of three flavors.

Sorting now includes Ustream producer, which can be used by anyone free of charge, Ustream producer Pro, more complex applications, available for $ 199 and new Studio producer, an application for the pros, starting from $ 549.

Each version of Ustream producer will include recently renovated "the leading desktop, which allows the users desktop screencast any computer within the LAN in broadcasts. Version 2.0 also adds audio feature that enables leading desktop, for example, as a client for Skype web talk show who are likely to be of particular interest to those involved in growing gamecasting space.

The manufacturer uses the new h. 264 codec MainConcept, as well as built-in bandwidth meter, which works to ensure transmission in high quality video. In addition, some cool new features new Studio Ustream producer include audio mixer with delay, synchronization, native support for HDV and IP cameras integrated scoreboards for sport fans, which can be viewed on the air, and the lower third of the new catalog to help make the gears a bit more professional look.

The best part is that now the amateur and professional videographers will use streaming content that includes music, pictures, transitions, and picture-in-picture capabilities with a few clicks. The inclusion of Telestream Wirecast in architecture in Ustream product now will provide users with the tools for scalable, high-quality video production on both Mac and PC — and to create custom productions, regardless of their level of knowledge.

More on Ustream producer visit producer demo here, or check out the live demo below:


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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Kimbia raises $ 4 M for online tools and event management software

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Kimbia, Austin, Texas based developer of Web tools and event management software solution, provided more than $ 4 million in series b round of financing led by S3 ventures.

Kimbia allows fundraisers, event organizers and social human rights defenders with the Web Control Panel ', they can use to create and distribute online credit card donation and registration forms.

Founded in 2007, the company said that its platform is currently used by more than 1 100 clients, including non-profit organizations and political candidates.

Previously investors were Kimbia CEO Daniel Gillette and angel investors from Austin and Houston.


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